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death7eater

Reputation: 1134

iphone development: how to set a property of an another viewController then reach it

Lets say I have two viewcontrollers ViewControllerA and ViewControllerB when I press a button from viewcontrollerA it is pushing to viewControllerB. However before pushing I want to set a property of viewControllerB from viewControllerA. But all I get is nil value when I check the variable from viewControllerB. What I do is;

In ViewControllerA:

VCB = [[ViewControllerB alloc]init];
[VCB setPropertyOfViewControllerB:someString];
NSLog(@"value: %@", VCB.PropertyOfViewControllerB); // Here I observe the correct value so I set successfully

but the thing is I also want to reach it from viewControllerB but I get nil for the variable.

In ViewControllerB:

//I already defined in h file as property
NSString *PropertyOfViewControllerB;
@property(nonatomic, retain) NSString *PropertyOfViewControllerB;

But when I try to check the value in viewDidLoad method of ViewControllerB

NSLog(@"value: %@", PropertyOfViewControllerB);//here I get null not the value I set at viewControllerA

Probably I miss a small point I could not figure out. Any help would be awesome. Thanks.

Edit: I am using storyboards. I push with the following code:

    UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainStoryboard" bundle: nil];
    lvc = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"mainManu"];
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:lvc animated:YES];

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2142

Answers (1)

xapslock
xapslock

Reputation: 1129

If you use VCB = [[ViewControllerB alloc]init]; but push via Storyboard, then VCB is not the same ViewController used in Storyboard. Try this:

 - (void) prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
     if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"yourSegueName"]) {
         ViewControllerB *vc = [segue destinationViewController];
         [vc setPropertyOfViewControllerB:@"foo"];
     }  
}

Upvotes: 7

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